To say that rehashing a 3 year old product is embarrassing is a bit of an understatement.
Ive been very curious as to what would be next for this product line. Most of my squeezeboxes have died, as they were prototypes that were subjected to some harsh compliance testing. The only players I have now are production models. I still have my working hand soldered Slimp3. I can second everything bklaas said earlier. Everybody worked incredibly hard on the Radio, and we finally had Logitechs manufacturing and parts purchasing power. The Radio was going to be our first high volume product; I remember the excitement very well. Suddenly, 1/3 of the team was let go, 1/3 went to Google TV, and the other 1/3 went to the speaker group, it was like loosing 2/3 of the tightly knit team at once. With shock and disbelief, I was working for the speakers department on who knows what. During that time, we did nothing to advance the hardware. Products were planned and quickly cancelled. Even our parts suppliers were moving forward; we had to recertify various eol parts for products which should have been updated long before. Eventually, I had nothing to do. During my last two weeks at Logitech, I checked my phones voicemail. I was finally given something to do; clean out my desk. Watching Logitech take a long, slow, steamy crap on all of our hard work was incredibly demoralizing. I have a Touch mounted on the wall in my kitchen, and speakers above the cabinets. Everybody who sees the setup immediately has fun playing with it. Sometimes I wonder if the management at Logitech ever realizes how we were able to design products with such a small team and shoestring budget. Nope, they are probably wondering about how to increase the sales of their mice, keyboards, and speakers by 1% at Best Buy. My wife and I use our Squeezeboxes all the time, we hope to continue to use them in the future. Best wishes to everybody still maintaining the products. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mfieger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188
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